It took six years of digging to uncover the religious burial ground.
A 4,000-year-old religious burial ground has been discovered in the Netherlands.Phys.org reportedIt was also configured so that the sun would shine directly through on the winter and summer solstices.
“The largest mound served as a sun calendar, similar to the famous stones of Stonehenge in England,” the town put in the statement,Offerings of both human and animal skulls — along with valuables like a bronze spearhead — were also found at the spots where the sun directly beamed through. Two other smaller mounds used for burial rituals were also discovered and had been used for about 800 years, according to the archeologists, who added that their calendar was used notably to determine harvest and festival days.Archeologists in the Netherlands uncovered an ancient burial ground.“This bead traveled a distance of some 5,000 kilometers, four millennia ago,” chief researcher Cristian van der Linde said.
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